Monday, September 27, 2010

Robin Rogers

About: Robin Rogers

Music has
been my consuming passion ever since my days as a teenaged street singer.
Possessing a deeply expressive and soulful voice and an infectious enthusiasm
for the blues, my band and I have developed a devoted and growing following.

In the
late sixties when America's youth was "rediscovering the Blues,"
Robin Rogers was "living the Blues." As a runaway teen trying to
escape a troubled home, she made my way to cities like Richmond, Virginia; Ann
Arbor, Michigan; Atlanta, Georgia, and Coconut Grove, Florida. Living the
hippie lifestyle of the times, even sharing residence in a commune in Love
Valley, North Carolina for one summer, sometimes sleeping in parks, under
picnic tables and in abandoned cars.

After
serving time as a juvenile in reform school for truancy and being out of
parental control, I was released at age 15 to begin life on my own. It was a
hard life for a young girl, and it wasn't long until I was addicted to drugs
and alcohol and, thank goodness, to singing! I eventually learned to play
guitar and began accompanying myself. I performed on the streets, at parties
and coffee houses for food and tips, setting the stage for the emergence of an
independent, strong-willed spirit and charismatic singer. After hearing the
applause of strangers, I knew I was hooked! My goal was to make a living
performing music, and this I have done for over 30 years now.

As fate
would have it, I became drug and alcohol free in 1989 and began to turn my life
around. I moved to North Carolina in 1990, performing in the Southeast area for
the next ten years, recording, writing and enjoying music clean and sober for
the first time in many years. I got involved with the Charlotte Blues Society
in the mid-nineties. Shortly after that, I met and married fellow musician and
Blues lover, Tony Rogers. We performed as an acoustic duo, with Tony playing
guitar/dobro and myself on harmonica and percussion. It wasn't too long before
I was heard by producer/musician, Jim Brock and was asked to do a CD which was
released in 2001 entitled "Time For Myself," a contemporary Blues
record which contains six originals penned by myself and Tony.

I signed
with Blind Pig in 2008, and my debut release for the label, “Treat Me Right”,
was issued in June of that year. It’s a showcase formy stylistic variety and
passionate vocal intensity, from the rolling r&b title track to the jazzy
“Nobody Stays” to the soulful groove of “Nobody’s Gonna Hurt You.” It also
features perhaps my most powerful composition, "Color-Blind Angel", a
moving account of the life and death of white civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo,
who was assassinated by the KKK in 1965. "Color-Blind Angel" won
second place in the blues category of the 2007 International Songwriters
Competition.

Update: Robin Rogers

On
December 15, 2010, Robin learned that she had been nominated for a prestigious
Blues Music Award in the category of Contemporary Blues Female Artist of the
Year. On December 16, Robin asked Tony to please travel to the Blues Music
Awards presentation in Memphis on May 5to accept the award on her
behalf if she won. On December 17, Robin passed away peacefully at home.

On May 5th,
2011 Robin won the Blues Female Artist of the Year. Those who knew her will all
miss Robin terribly but it is comforting to know that her spirit is still with
us and will live on forever through her music.

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